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Map of the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transfromation
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Map of the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transfromation - Interconnected political, economic & environmental breakdown

The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transformation (c. 1250–1100 BCE) was a period of major political, economic, and social disruption across the Aegean...
Treaty Establishing Hittite Domination over Aleppo
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Treaty Establishing Hittite Domination over Aleppo

This clay tablet is known as the "Aleppo Treaty". The treaty was drawn up between the Hittite king Mursili II and Talmi-sharruma (king of Aleppo). It was written in Akkadian, the diplomatic language...
The Tablet of the Treaty between Suppiluliuma I and Hukkana
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The Tablet of the Treaty between Suppiluliuma I and Hukkana

This clay tablet mentions the details of the treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma (Šuppiluliuma) I and the Haiasa (Haiaša) prince Hukkana. 13th century BCE (the tablet was originally...
Hittite relief of the God Sharruma and King Tudhaliya
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Hittite relief of the God Sharruma and King Tudhaliya

East wall of Chamber B of the Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary near Hattusa (13th century BCE) depicting in a niche the God Sharruma (the Hurrian Mountain God and son of the Thunder God Teshub) embracing...
Hattusili III's Letter to Kadasman-Enlil II
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Hattusili III's Letter to Kadasman-Enlil II

This clay tablet represents a letter from Ḫattušili III (king of the Hittite Empire) to Kadašman-Enlil II (Kadashman-Enlil II; the Kassite king of Babylon). The beginning reads "I mourned for your father...
Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary
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Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary

Yazılıkaya is a Hittite rock sanctuary located about 1.5 kilometres northeast of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. It is the largest known Hittite rock monument. The sanctuary...
Rock Relief with Procession of Hittite Deities at Yazilikaya
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Rock Relief with Procession of Hittite Deities at Yazilikaya

Rock relief in Chamber A of the Yazilikaya Hittite Sanctuary (13th century BCE) near Hattusa depicting a procession of male deities. They all wear shoes curling up at the toe, and many are armed...
Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary, Overview of Chamber B
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Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary, Overview of Chamber B

The Yazilikaya Hittite sanctuary near Hattusa was made of two rock chambers, later labelled Chamber A and Chamber B by archaeologists. The walls of each chamber were covered with the richest and...
Prayer of King Arnuwanda and Queen Asmu-Nikkal
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Prayer of King Arnuwanda and Queen Asmu-Nikkal

The royal couple (the Hittite king Arnuwanda and his wife Ašmu-nikal) is complaining to the gods about the Kaška people for having sacked the Hatti country, demolished the temples, and broken the statues...
Twelve Gods of the Underworld, Yazilikaya Hittite Sanctuary
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Twelve Gods of the Underworld, Yazilikaya Hittite Sanctuary

West wall of Chamber B of the Yazilikaya Hittite Sanctuary near Hattusa (13th century BCE) depicting the Twelve Gods of the Underworld. They wear short shirts, belts and shoes curling up at the...
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